2014 interior design trends

Yelling Timber: This Sinewy Timber Treehouse Was Built to Disappear

Monday, February 2, 2015, by Katherine Wisniewski

Photos by Life Style Koubou

Hidden on a forested hilltop in Japan’;s ibaraki prefacture is Life Style Koubou‘s latest creation, a gracefully meandering timber treehouse. The firm is known primarily for its aggressively minimal designs, and House in Itsuura exhibits the same light touch, though it rests atop 2 hulking support columns. The architects imagine that, with time, the timber structure will eventually weather into the same color as the forest it hides within. You could almost say House in Itsuura was built to disappear.

Intended to recreate an ambling walk through the home, Life Style Koubou’;s home video is arrestingly mediative. The windows, both scattered and small, flit around the home’;s timber frame and provide scattered yet satisfying lighting throughout the space.